White Mountain Research Center

Zoe Wood, UC Davis PhD student, and 2024 WMRC Mini-Grant recipient will be discussing her research on the glandular alpine plant Hulsea algida. This event is free & open to the public. Registration is required, please visit the provided URL. This talk will be recorded & posted to our YouTube channel at a later date.

Join Big Pine Paiute tribal member Sage Romero as he discusses the Piper v Big Pine case that set the precedent for Brown v Board of Education. This event is free and open to the public. It will be recorded and posted to our YouTube channel at a later date.

Elizabeth Dahlhoff, Professor of Biology at Santa Clara University and colleague of Nathan Rank, will discuss her long-term research on examining physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms by which animals respond to environmental change. Her research specifically focuses on that of the willow leaf beetle that dwells in the high Sierra Nevada. This event is free… Continue reading WMRC Lecture Series: Getting chased up the mountain- life at high elevation in the face of environmental change with Dr. Elizabeth Dahlhoff

Bill Krebs, UCLA & WMRC alumni will be presenting on the Cambrian fossil history of the White Mountains. The Cambrian Explosion was a seminal event in the history of life on Earth. It occurred ~ 541 mya at the beginning of the Cambrian Period and is characterized by the first appearance of abundant mineralized invertebrates,… Continue reading WMRC Lecture Series: The Inyo-White Mountains Cambrian Explosion

Some fundamentally important questions concerning wildlife population biology can only be researched with long-term data sets, because each year is but a single data point. Early in my career, I came to understand the need for such data sets.  I have now devoted five decades to the development of such data sets on bighorn sheep… Continue reading WMRC Lecture Series: Five Decades of Long-Term Research on Bighorn Sheep